Revolve vs Convolute - What's the difference?
revolve | convolute |
(label) To orbit a central point.
To turn on an axis.
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(label) To recur in cycles.
(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', Bk.2, Ch.6, ''Monk Samson :
To make unnecessarily complex.
To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.
(botany, of a leaf) coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil, giving a spiral effect in cross section. (A special case of imbricate)
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In transitive terms the difference between revolve and convolute
is that revolve is to ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of while convolute is to fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.As verbs the difference between revolve and convolute
is that revolve is to orbit a central point while convolute is to make unnecessarily complex.As an adjective convolute is
coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil, giving a spiral effect in cross section. (A special case of imbricate.revolve
English
Verb
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.